"veris and amee young" wrote in message
hlink.net...
well we would like to stay with dish as they are cheaper then direct tv
and
we don't really care for sports so don't need all the sports channles
direct
tv offer. Main thing comes down to is how much we have to pay each month.
I
have been doing research on this for while but i keep here both sides so i
needed more info. I know there are lot of ppl with directv tivo but since
we
are not going to change to direct tv i would like to know experice from
dish
ppl who either have stand alone tivo or dish dvr. thank you all for all
info you have provided so far.

Well, like I was trying to say earlier, I felt the same as you. I didn't
want to switch from Dish. I was completely satisfied with my model 501 (the
DVR they offered at the time) except that I needed two tuners and it had
only one. I thought surely they would offer me the new dual tuner 522 for
100 buck or so, but no no a thousand times no! I was told it was available
as a 'lease' option for new customers only. In short they couldn't offer it
to me at *any* price so I said to hell with them. They had an older dual
tuner model (721) but it also was too expensive (in fact it was obsolete,
hard to find even thru a retailer).

Other than the limitation of a single tuner, and a few minor things that it
couldn't do that a TiVo can (e.g. season pass) I was completely satisfied
with it. It worked exactly as advertised. If you want to stay with Dish,
and why not, definitely ask them about the 522 as maybe things have changed
since I went through this and they can offer it to you at a good price (or
even lease it maybe) and also IIRC the feature set has been upgraded.
Whether it has anything equivalent to the season pass is unbeknownst to me,
but it wouldn't surprise me if it did. There is no doubt you can get a good
single tuner DVR for a little of nothing (if not totally free with a
programming commitment) such as the model 510 (120 gig drive, which is nice)
so the question really is whether or not you need a dual tuner model, and if
so, whether Dish has anything good to offer at this time. If you don't mind
a single tuner DVR, then it's a no brainer-- just stay with Dish and get the
510.